574 NocxuiD^, 



area irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown. 



Ab. 1. turana. Paler and more tinged with oohreous. — Trans- 

 caspia and Mongolia. 



Ab. 2. intermedia. Ochreous white with a violaceous tinge, the 

 markings indistinct. — Armenia ; Syria ; Persia. 



Ab. 3. erubescens, Fulvous or reddish with the markings 

 distinct. — N. Syria ; Mesopotamia ; Kurdistan. 



Ab. 4. funebris. Much darker, leaden grey. — Armenia ; Taurus. 



Hab. France, E. Pyrenees ; N. Spain ; Switzerland, 2 $ ; 

 N.Italy; Hungary; Carinthia ; Bosnia; Armenia; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus, Taurus ; Syria, Lebanon {Mrs. NichoU), 1 d , Palestine, 

 1 2 ; Persia, Mesopotamia, 1 c? , 1 $ ; ^^'- Turkestan, Trauscaspia, 

 Ferghana ; Mongolia. Exjj. 38-42 millim. 



1002. Lycophotia pudica. 



Agrotis pudica, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 351, pi. vi. f. 3 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 143. 

 Agrotis grmola, Staud. Iris, \iii. p. 353 (1895). 



S . Head and thorax pale orange ; palpi blackish except at tips ; 

 tibige and tarsi banded with bhick ; abdomen whitisli, tinged with 

 ocbreous towards extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing 

 pale orange, slightly irrorated with black ; a subbasal black spot on 

 costa with line from it to submediau fold ; an oblique antemedial 

 line expanding into spots at costa, submedian fold, and inner margin ; 

 a medial shade strong Irom costa to lower angle of cell, where it is 

 bent outwards, then waved and diflused ; a curved diffused obscurely 

 waved postmedial line slightly angled inwards in discal fold ; a 

 subterminal blackish patch on costa and faint traces of a subterminal 

 line; a terminal series of blackish points. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with pale fuscous ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas tinged with brown. 



Ab. 1. griseola. Fore wing suffused with violaceous grey. 



Hab. W. Turkestan, Issyk-kul, 1 J ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; 

 Mongolia, Uliassutai Mts. Exji. 36 millim. 



1003. Lycophotia umbrifera. 



Agrotis umhrifera, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss. xvii. p. 53, pi. i. f. 33 (1882) ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 143. 



$ . Head whitish ; palpi black at sides except at base ; thorax 

 very pale rufous mixed with fuscous ; tibia) and tarsi banded with 

 fuscous ; abdomen dorsally tinged Avith ochreous. Fore wing 

 ochreous with a fleshy tinge, thickly irrorated and suffused with 

 fuscous, less so on costal half to postmedial hue ; a waved fuscous 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a waved fuscous ante- 

 medial line ; a waved medial shade excurved at lower angle of cell : 

 reniform an indistinct lunule ; jiostuiedial line dentate, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the terminal 

 area more strongly suffused with fuscous ; a pale diffused subterminal 



